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I am fully aware of the history and have had digs myself but I think there comes a time when the threads become banal and very much the same ! I like to read most threads and contribute to many as you know, so just saying that you are covering old ground again ! I will be glad when RL finally curls up and dies which wont be too long from what I can gather ! I just think that these sort of threads can maybe contained to just one sticky perhaps ?

For the record SDW…..

Our crowd against Liverpool has been sub 20k for the last 3 seasons. You can’t use the database as an excuse because you only need to have been to 1 match in the whole time we’ve been at The JJB/DW. If you haven’t managed that then you aren’t really a Wigan Athletic fan are you?

London Broncos had less than 10 fans there so almost 12k home fans for a sh*te game on a freezing cold day isn’t bad going. Strangely enough, our crowds always take a hit on a Sunday nowadays.

40,000 on at the SFS for the season opener in the NRL. Sydney FC and Sydney Olympic don’t get that combined whilst the Aussie Rules side average 30k.

It’s a growing sport tha knows Bruce

Maybe Egg, but the Melbourne derby was the first game of the season in the A-League and they had 42k on, while 35k went to the Sydney v Newcastle game the following week.

And now I step into nerd mode:

The average attendance of Sydney FC is 18k and Melbourne Victory is 22k.

The league average is 12k – which is on par with somewhere between Championship and League One.

It’s the highest average since 2008 – so yes, it is growing.

By average attendance, the most watched ‘football’ sports in Australia are:

Aussie Rules 32k
Rugby Union 20k
Rugby League 18k
Association Football 12k

By contrast, last season’s UK Super League average attendance was 10k

A link to the full list of A League stats for fellow nerds is here:

http://www.ultimatealeague.com/records.php?type=att%5B/quote%5D

Thanks for that SW. I was only taking the piss :lol:

Maybe Egg, but the Melbourne derby was the first game of the season in the A-League and they had 42k on, while 35k went to the Sydney v Newcastle game the following week.

And now I step into nerd mode:

The average attendance of Sydney FC is 18k and Melbourne Victory is 22k.

The league average is 12k – which is on par with somewhere between Championship and League One.

It’s the highest average since 2008 – so yes, it is growing.

By average attendance, the most watched ‘football’ sports in Australia are:

Aussie Rules 32k
Rugby Union 20k
Rugby League 18k
Association Football 12k

By contrast, last season’s UK Super League average attendance was 10k

A link to the full list of A League stats for fellow nerds is here:

http://www.ultimatealeague.com/records.php?type=att%5B/quote%5D

Thanks for that SW. I was only taking the piss :lol:[/quote]
Not a problem Egg. Thought I’d provide some stats for the attendance nerds to masturbate over.[/quote]

Ha ha. Obviously there’ll be a thread tomorrow night when Wigan fail to get 25k against a team bringing no fans so just thought I’d throw in a 40k crowd from the NRL. :)

reason ausies get decent crowds compared to the two counties version in england is its ausies national sport didn’t they invent it in first place
or did it start here where some guy couldn’t play football due to obesity and picked the ball up and tried to run with it
i know owd chap used to watch wurriors but that was ages back used to mention someone called billy buxton
wouldn’t know him if i fawd over him

I take it you sold all 6000 tickets for yesterday then?